You are invited to the much-anticipated Launch Event with Norma Bastidas!

Friday, March 24, 2017

7:30-10:00pm

The Downtown Independent Theater

215 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA

Lobby Reception to follow

Please join us onFriday, March 24thfor this invite only pre-screening of Be Relentless and celebration with ultra-athlete and human trafficking survivor, Norma Bastidas. Learn about and experience the impact this movie and movement is already making!

Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage is a personal documentary about a filmmaker who, inspired by the transformation of the sex-trafficking survivors whose lives she is documenting, finds the courage to break the silence about sexual abuse in her own life.

We would like to invite you to the screening of “Unseen Dances” our dance film collaboration with the the Red Sand Project. Our film tells the story of trafficked American girls through dance.

The event will be at the HELINET hangar at the Van Nuys Airport on April 9th. Some of the proceeds will go to the Maria Suarez Foundation, which works to rehabilitate trafficked children in Southern California.

When
Thursday October 16, 2014 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM PDT
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Where
Port Theater
2905 East Coast Hwy
Corona Del Mar, CA 92625

World Affairs Council of Orange County Presents Combating Human Trafficking

The goal of this program is to increase awareness in the United States of the underlying causes and profound dangers of human trafficking.

Not My Life, a documentary film directed by Oscar nominee Robert Bilheimer, and narrated by Glenn Close, is widely regarded by the international human rights community depiction of the often unspeakable realities of human trafficking and modern slavery.

This will be a 30 minute movie screening with a panel discussion to follow. Dinner will be served.

Modern-day slavery is alive and well in the United States as thousands of victims are trafficked throughout the country to satisfy America’s $3 billion a year sex trafficking industry. Meet the pimps, the johns, the police, the parents and the victims of the America’s thriving sex trade in TRICKED, a comprehensive documentary that uncovers America’s dirty secret. It’s an industry that is fueled by greed, fantasy and the commercial sexual exploitation of American children and girls.

Embedded with the Denver Vice squad, TRICKED follows Sgt. Dan Steele and his colleagues in their dogged pursuit of traffickers and devotion to rescuing victims. In Las Vegas, ground zero for escort services, Las Vegas Police detectives work to hit traffickers where it hurts them most, by seizing their financial assets. In New York, Chicago and Las Vegas, brash and unrepentant johns reveal the how, why, when and where of what they call “a hobby.”

From Sgt. Steele to the survivors, TRICKED weaves together dramatic, disparate, inter-dependent characters and provides an unflinching view of the world of sex trafficking, the almost incomprehensible and disturbing bonds between the traffickers and victims and the seemingly insurmountable challenges faced by law enforcement nationwide.